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Green Urban Initiative Community Garden Rebuild & More About City Gardens

This past weekend, a car accident on the morning of Saturday, October 5th destroyed parts of the community garden on Atlas Street in Uptown.

The details of the accident haven’t been confirmed by authorities. The Harrisburg Bureau of Police has the incident listed as “criminal mischief” with little other details publicly available.

However, eye witness accounts have corroborated the vehicle was traveling at high speed, and that the driver lost control crashing into the garden breaking a concrete border, fencing, six boxes, and the compost bin. The driver was taken to Hershey Medical Center, per multiple accounts.

Last September, the city’s Public Works bulldozed GUI’s Uptown garden by order of City Council President Wanda Williams. The privately held land on Atlas Street was donated to GUI to rebuild the demolished garden, which was done in the spring. Over this past summer, a mural was painted there artist Byüri TheFül and Jump Street installed a Peace Wall.

Damage from the accident, vine by Jonathan Smith of Smith Create. Click to view:

GUI is putting a call out asking for help to rebuild this community garden in Uptown.

Archive article from September 2012 when the GUI N6th Street Community Garden was bulldozed by Public Works by order of the City Council President. today’s the day Harrisburg–“The Story of a City Garden”

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